We are excited to invite students, staff, faculty, and the public to a mini-conference on post-memory and cultural resilience
Monday, April 21. We'll start the day in Cheng Library Auditorium with two powerful hybrid sessions on the power of oral histories and documentation in fighting cultural erasure, and wrap up with a gallery tour in Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts with exhibiting photographers
Diana Markosian and
Ara Oshagan. If you haven't seen either exhibition on the Armenian Genocide, this is your last chance! Enjoy breakfast and lunch with us while experiencing this engaging cultural event.
9:30 Check-in/ breakfast
10:00 Introduction
10:15 Panel: The Importance of Oral History in Genocide Education
Speakers: Dr. Alison Dobrick, Director, WPU Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and
Dr. Barbara Krasner, Director, Mercer County Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Education Center
Moderator: Dr. Alison Dobrick
11:15 Break
11:30 Panel: Post-Memory, Photography, and Documentation
Speakers: Exhibiting artists Diana Markosian, Ara Oshagan, and Levon Parian
Moderator: Ryann Casey, Before, After curator, Stockton University
12:30 Lunch
1:15 Gallery Tour of Before, After in Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts with artists Ara Oshagan and Diana Markosian
Date Submitted: 04/18/2025
Submitted By: Teacher Ed: PreK-12 - Faculty / Alison Dobrick